The Wooster Group's LA DIDONE
An Opera by Francesco Cavalli
Libretto by Francesco Busenello
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
http://www.stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=33
Opening March 17th
St. Ann's Warehouse
38 Water Street
DUMBO, Brooklyn
LA DIDONE, Francesco Cavalli's opera, with libretto by Francesco Busenello, (1641)
and Mario Brava's cult movie Terrore nello spazio (1965) collide in a war-like symbiosis,
dropping Aeneas' ships onto a forbidding planetary landscape and forming a synergy between early baroque opera and pre-moonlanding sci-fi.
Just read about this and some of Elizabeth LeCompte's other works - sounds like genius, wish I had seen it.
MarsHottentot 11 months ago
This video does not really do this stunning performance justice, This initial scene is super surreal but you cannot see what is happening here, that is that a male actor is standing behind the singer and it is his arm that is making the gestures, the effect is really strong. Totally strange and complex, as usual the Wooster Group is brilliant,
Hmazzz 2 years ago
very cool
haowenjason925 3 years ago